The Sandra Moran Alphabet Soup Radio Book Club is on The Tenth Voice every second Saturday, 1-2 p.m. Central time. This LGBT public affairs show has been on the air since 1989 on KKFI 90.1 FM, Kansas City’s 100,000-watt community radio station. On the Radio Book Club show we discuss the entire spectrum of LGBTQ books with a variety of authors, books, genres, and panelists. The show features new panelists every month. To keep up to date, you can visit and like the show page at www.facebook.com/SandraMoranBookClub/.

The reason for the show’s name and its existence is at the end of the blog. But first, for those who have asked, here is the past and upcoming schedule with audio links for shows that have aired:

PAST SHOWS

Nov. 14, 2015. There was an introductory show. Carleen Spry, board member of the Golden Crown Literary Society, did an excellent job of describing GCLS, whose mission is education and the promotion and recognition of lesbian literature. Audio is here: https://www.dropbox.com/CarleenSpryonTTV-GCLS

June 11, 2016: Sara Farizan’s If You Could Be Mine with panelists Joy Baker, Luann Fox, Melodie Griffis, and David Whitner. NOTE: Sandra Moran’s Letters Never Sent was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s 2014 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Sara Farizan’s book won the award, and with typical generosity of spirit Sandra chose it for her radio book club. Audio: www.kkfi.org/program-sandra-moran-book-club-farizan

July 9, 2016: Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. NOTE: Elizabeth will be at the Golden Crown Literary Society conference in Washington, D.C., and Philip Hooser of The Tenth Voice hosted with panelists Brent Husher and David Whitner. Audio: www.kkfi.org/program-sandra-moran-book-club-kavalier

Aug. 13, 2016: Ann McMan’s Backcast with panelists Ann McMan, Michelle Pond, Bev Prescott, and Jeff Vincent. Sandra had not had a chance to read this book before she passed, but she undoubtedly would have approved this perfect summer read. Audio: www.kkfi.org/sandra moran-backcast/

Oct. 8, 2016: Mark Segal’s And Then I Danced with panelists Johnda Boyce, Holly Baggett, John Long, and Rodney Wilson. Rodney Wilson was the founder of LGBT History Month, and Johnda Boyce was a member of the committee. You can hear the show at this link: Oct. 8 show on Mark Segal memoir

Oct. 29, 2016: Halloween Bonus Show! This year is the 25th anniversary of The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez. The panelists were all part of The Tenth Voice team: Philip “Blue Owl” Hooser (first Saturdays), Elizabeth Andersen (second Saturday Sandra Moran book club), Una Nowling (Trans Talk on fourth Saturdays), and our producer/sound engineer Linda Wilson, as well as Annette Billings. You can hear the show here: The Gilda Stories Halloween Bonus Show

Nov. 12, 2016: Sandra Moran’s award-winning first novel Letters Never Sent. Panelists are Matt Hamblin, Rebecca Maury, Cheryl Pletcher, and Salem West. You can hear the show here: Sandra Moran’s Letters Never Sent

Dec. 10, 2016: Michael Cunningham’s The Hours (and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway) with guests Johnda Boyce and Philip “Blue Owl” Hooser joining host Elizabeth Andersen. This book won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Publishing Triangle Award for Gay Fiction. You can hear the show here: The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway

ORIGINS OF THE RADIO BOOK CLUB

When Sandra was invited to be a radio host on KKFI every second Saturday, she was unsure about the time commitment because she wanted to do it right. She thought about how radio would fit into her schedule and what she wanted her week’s show to look like. We said anything that fit the framework of an LGBT public affairs show would be fine because the show has had many permutations and hosts in 27 years.

In September 2015, she said she wanted to do a book club on the radio. She could have had a vocabulary segment on LGBT foreign words and people would have listened.

We were confident that her show as hosted by her would be wildly successful. After her cancer diagnosis, she asked me to host the show and said she’d left a template. She had chosen seven books and panels for those books. I intend to follow her plan to feature lively discussions of good books.

Sandra Moran told me she had three (because there are always three) goals for the show: 1) to showcase well-written LGBTQ books; 2) to elevate the discussion of our community’s literature; and 3) to bring attention to The Tenth Voice and KKFI. My goal is to honor literary legacy, both hers and that of the entire LGBTQ community. I hope you’ll listen.

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About elizandersen

Elizabeth Andersen considers it a great triumph that despite two degrees in English literature, she has been able to live by, for, and with words her entire career. She has taught English composition at three universities, including Rockhurst University. As an editor at Andrews McMeel Publishing on the syndicate side from 1984 to 2001, Elizabeth edited newspaper columns and comic strips. She is currently an editor/proofreader for Bywater Books. Besides being on the production team for Kansas City's LGBT Film Festival "Out Here Now," she is on crew for the National Women's Music Festival. She hosts the Sandra Moran Radio Book Club every second Saturday of The Tenth Voice on KKFI 90.1 FM.